Popular Talks
The following lectures have been organized under the Evolution and Society Series at IISER Pune and IISc Bangalore.
Talk 1
Day/Date: Friday, 5 October 2018
Title: Evolution: what is it? why is it important for us to know?
Speaker: Prof L. S. Shashidhara, IISER Pune
Talk 2
Day/Date: Monday, 29 October 2018
Title: Evolution of Human Cognition
Speaker: Prof L. S. Shashidhara, IISER Pune
Talk 3
Day/Date: Friday, 9 November 2018
Title: Human genetics and the concept of ancestry
Speaker: Prof Satyajit Rath, IISER Pune
Talk 4
Day/Date: Friday, 9 November 2018
Title: Evolutionary Medicine: Building a foundation after the tower
Speaker: Prof Milind Watve, IISER Pune
Talk 5
Day/Date: Saturday, 10 November 2018
Title: The evolution of cooperation and sacrifice
Speaker: Prof Raghavendra Gadagkar, IISc Bengaluru
Talk 6
Day/Date: Friday, 16 November 2018
Title: The amazing story of how life originated on Earth
Speaker: Prof Sudha Rajamani, IISER Pune
Talk 7
Day/Date: Friday, 25 January 2019
Title: The shared history and joint future of plants and people
Speaker: Prof Deepak Barua, IISER Pune
Talk 8
Day/Date: Thursday, 14 February 2019
Title: A Darwinian view of our lives
Speaker: Prof Renee M. Borges, IISc Bengaluru
Talk 9
Day/Date: Friday, 15 February 2019
Title: The antimicrobial resistance crisis, viewed though Darwin’s eyes
Speaker: Dr Nishad Matange, IISER Pune
Talk 10
Day/Date: Friday, 15 March 2019
Title: Evolution of nervous systems and behaviour
Speaker: Prof Aurnab Ghose, IISER Pune
Talk 11
Day/Date: Friday, 12 April 2019
Title: Cancer and evolution
Speaker: Prof Vineeta Bal, IISER Pune